{"id":57676,"date":"2025-08-09T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:37:07","slug":"ranked-heavyweight-finds-new-home-after-surprising-ufc-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57676\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranked heavyweight finds new home after surprising UFC exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A win in his final bout under contract didn\u2019t secure Martin Buday a new contract with the UFC, but the heavyweight fighter has a new home after inking a deal to join the roster at Oktagon MMA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The European promotion confirmed the news on Saturday with Buday inking his contract during Oktagon 74.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With a 7-1 record in the UFC, Buday certainly didn\u2019t see it coming when the promotion opted not to offer him a new contract fresh off a win over Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion and former ONE heavyweight Marcus Buchecha. That victory at UFC Abu Dhabi extended Buday\u2019s overall win streak to three in a row with his only loss coming nearly two years ago when he fell to Shamil Gaziev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s true, yesterday we got a call that UFC is not resigning us for the moment,\u201d Buday wrote on Twitter after receiving word from the UFC on his contract. \u201cWell it is what it is at least I\u2019m leaving with my head up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now Buday joins the roster at Oktagon where Will Fleury reigns as a two-division champion at both heavyweight and light heavyweight. The promotion already teased a potential showdown between Buday and Fleury for the future now that he\u2019s under contract and ready to compete again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A win in his final bout under contract didn\u2019t secure Martin Buday a new contract with the UFC,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-57676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}